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This week’s Bookworm makes a splash!
Read @adrianma on @ianwillwrite’s “What I Mean to Say” (@HouseofAnansi), Caroline Noël on Georgia Toews’s “Nobody Asked for This” (@doubledayca), and @davidvenn_ on @mattscace67’s “Jasper on Fire” (@sutherlandbooks).
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This week’s writing tip comes from Griffin Poetry Prize Trustee and 2024 CBC Massey Lecturer, Ian Williams (@ianwillwrite). His poetry collection, 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨, was shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Another signing dump! ✍️
@ianwillwrite, @Augengrau, Tasneem Jamal, and @afmoritz dropped by the office to sign copies of their books.
Learn more about their work at HouseofAnansi.com.
ALT A photo of Ian Williams holding a copy of What I Mean To Say.
ALT A photo of Al Moritz taking a mid-book signing break to chat with someone just out of view. A stack of copies of Great Silent Ballad is on the table in front of him.
ALT A photo of Kate Camp outside our office with How to Be Happy Though Human.
ALT Tasneem Jamal signing copies of I Never Said That I Was Brave.
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Ian Williams @ianwillwrite will be in Toronto for the final leg of the #CBCMasseyLectures on October 29 at @KoernerHall. Get your tickets: rcmusic.com/tickets/seats/35…
We look forward to hosting the #booklaunch today at 4:00pm.
@HouseofAnansi @CBC @cbcradio @cbcideas
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We are pleased to announce our 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize judges!
✨A. F. Moritz, Canadian poet and former Toronto Poet Laureate
✨Jan Wagner, German poet, essayist, and translator
✨Anne Waldman, American poet, professor, and cultural activist
Read: griffinpoetryprize.com/press…
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We are hiring a new Poetry Editor to start in December of this year. IS IT YOU?
We offer $1000 per year (or, $250/ quarterly issue). Send us your cover letter answering a few questions and resume/cv by FRIDAY, NOV 3, 2023.
MORE INFO: ex-puritan.ca/news/now-hirin…
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The 2023 #ScotiabankGillerPrize longlist will be revealed tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. ET. Watch the announcement live on Facebook and YouTube.
📱Facebook: bit.ly/3R9Lzuv
🖥️ YouTube: bit.ly/45Sf484
#GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianfiction
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The legendary @MargaretAtwood joined @ianwillwrite to discuss Old Babes in the Wood, her extraordinary new collection of short fiction, as part of our May Bestsellers Series. Hear their fascinating hour-long conversation on our podcast now.
anchor.fm/booksandideas
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“The autobiographical happens with or without our admittance of it.”
In this interview with Griffin trustee @ianwillwrite, Ocean Vuong shares his process of moving beyond “memoiristic transcription” to transform his lived experience into the fictive.
youtu.be/7J_RqA757tk
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Tickets are going fast for @colsonwhitehead in conversation with @ianwillwrite on Aug 8 at the Waterfront Theatre on @granville_isle!
Tickets include a copy of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead’s new novel, CROOK MANIFESTO: writersfest.bc.ca/event/whit…
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“It’s almost like she died and she took the words away.”
–Susan Musgrave
Watch this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams (@ianwillwrite) and 2023 #GriffinPoetryPrize finalist Susan Musgrave (@Musgravian)!
youtube.com/watch?v=F6idhjwT…
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With Giller-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams at #Vancouver’s Chan Centre last night, where we were raising $$$ for the Vancouver Writers’ Festival.. he asked good Qs! Wonderful crowd!
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@MargaretAtwood & @ianwillwrite came all the way to Vancouver to raise some post-pandemic $ for @VanWritersFest.Thanks to them, & @ScotiaWealth, this sold out crowd @ChanCentre was treated to a pretty great night! Thanks to them & the audience for supporting the Festival! 📚🎉 – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Award-winning author & poet @ianwillwrite will join us for a LIVE conversation with @JaelRichardson, to talk about the impact of racial encounters on racialized people, drawing on his book "Disorientation: Being Black in the World."
Free tickets: ow.ly/yS7Q50Mt3mv
ALT Picture of author Ian Williams in a turtleneck sweater against a black background.
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Join us tomorrow at 7 pm for our last Storied of 2022 ft. @HarshaWalia and @ianwillwrite, hosted by @eleekg. Harsha, Ian and Elee will be discussing books and writing as tools for change. To register for this event, visit our website here: bcyukonbookprizes.com/event/…
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Only three more days to apply to the @cavecanempoets Fellowship!
🗓️Deadline: Nov. 28, 2022
✍️Submit: 6-8 pages of poems & cover letter
💵Fee: None; Cave Canem Retreat free to all fellows
🌍Open to Black poets, ages 21 and over
griffinpoetryprize.com/calen…
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"The fish grew
legs and walked right on shore. Right. It died
the first few times. Right. Natural causes. Right.
The time it didn't die it looked like a woman
climbing stairs to take teaspoons of cough syrup
to her child. Right."
#TodaysPoem American History I by @ianwillwrite
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Halfway through STARFest, & looking forward to Clayton Thomas-Müller @CreeClayton tonight. More next week with Heather O'Neill @lethal_heroine and Ian Williams @ianwillwrite followed by a post-festival Armchair Adventure with Adam Shoalts! Details at starfest.ca.
